stereotype
IPA: stˈɛriʌtaɪp
noun
- A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).
- (psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
- (printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
- (software engineering) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.
verb
- (transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
- (transitive, printing) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
- (transitive, printing) To print from a stereotype.
- (transitive, figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
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Examples of "stereotype" in Sentences
- He is trying to break the stereotype.
- They have not been gender stereotyped.
- The section confuses cliche and stereotype.
- The list of stereotypes is ridiculously offensive.
- This is stereotyped foraging behavior of the Swedish.
- It implies that the rest of the stereotypes are accurate.
- For Canadians, a stereotype is politeness and selflessness.
- For that matter, the British are stereotyped in 'Mary Poppins'.
- How does the contradiction of a stereotype perpetuate the stereotype
- However, it is a fact that there is a stereotype of the unrepentant Japanese.
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